Belt for personal wear



Dec. 23, 1930. E. 5. MIX ,9

BELT FOR PERSONAL WEAR Filed Jan. 30. 1929 INVENTOR Eda 5n 5, M1)

245 ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 23, 1930 UNITED STATES PA ENT OFFICE V EDWIN S. MIX, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, AS SIGNOR TO HICKOK MANIJ'FACTURING COMPANY, INC., OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK BELT non rEnsoNAL EAR Application filed January 30, 1929.

The present invention relates to belts for personal wear and more particularly to the means for connecting the two ends of a belt inwhich one end is reduced. An object of this invention is to provide a novel connecting means which will permit the belt to lie in a substantially flat condition at the point of connection and will expose only a small portion of the connecting means while at the same time covering the reduced belt end.

To this and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter de scribed: the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary front view of a bell; adjacent the connection between the two en s;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view of the rear face of the belt adjacent the connecting means;

Fig. 3 is the front view of the buckle;

Fig. 4- is a rear View of the buckle;

Fig. 5 is an edge view of the buckle;

Fig. 6 is a transverse section through the buckle; and

Fig. 7 is a detail view showing the manner in which the free end of the belt is laced through the buckle when the belt is attached to a person.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention there is employed a belt having a reduced end 1 attached to the buckle, and an end 2 adapt-ed to be laced through the buckle.

The buckle, in this instance, comprises a front plate 3 having two parallel slots 4 of uniform width symmetrically arranged with reference to opposite sides of the front plate 3. The front also has a central slot 5 which is separated from the slots 4: by bars 6, the slots 4 projecting at both ends beyond the ends of the slot 5. One of the bars 6 has offset portions 7 projected rearwardly from the front plate 3, these ofiset portions being re duced at 8 with reference to the other portions of the bar 6. Mounted to turn on the offset portions are two sleeve bearings 9 formed at the ends of two arms 10 on an anchoring Serial No. 336,240.

about which the reduced end lof' the belt is secured. This anchoring member is therefore pivoted on the inner side of one of the slots 4- on one of the bars 6 and extends toward the other bar and other slot on the rear side of the front plate. Its width is less than the length of the slots 4: so that the reduced end of the belt will not be visible from the front of the belt but will lie in rear of that portion of the belt which is laced through the slots 4. By rearwardly offsetting and reducing the portion 7 on'which the bearing sleeves 9 turn, the bearing sleeves lie flush with the sides of the adjacent slot 4 and also with the front face of the front plate 3.

In using the belt, the reduced end is passed around the anchoring bar 11 so that the anchoring bar lies in rear of the front plate. The other or free end of the belt is then laced through that opening or slot 4; nearest to the pivot of the anchoring member. The belt is 1 then tightened about the waist and thereafter the front plate is swung to the position illustrated in Fig. 7 so that the free end of the belt may be laced through that opening or slot 4 more remote from the hinge of the anchoring member.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination with a belt having one end reduced, a buckle comprising a front plate having three slots arranged side by side, the outside slots being of uniform width and being symmetrically arranged with reference to the opposite sides of the front plate, the ends of the two outside slots projecting beyond the ends of the central slot, and the other belt end being passed through the two outside slots to lie in front of the central slot, said front plate having two bars separating the slots, one of said bars having portions offset rearwardly from the plate, and a belt attaching member having two arms bent about the offset portions of the said bar, said belt attaching member extending behind the front plate toward the other bar and having a bar about which the reduced end of the belt is looped, the width of the attaching member being less than the length of either one of the slots of the front plate so that the attaching member and the reduced end of the belt are covered by the other end of the belt.

2. In combination with a belt having one end reduced, and a belt buckle comprising a front plate having tWo parallel slots of uniform Width arranged symmetrically With reference to opposite sides of the plate and through which the other end of the belt is adapted to be passed, 01": a pivot bar on the front plate parallel with such slots and nearer one of such slots than the other, said pivot bar being less in length than the slots and terminating at both ends between the ends of the slots, and an anchoring member of less width than the length of the slots mounted to swing on said pivot bar and extending from its pivot bar toward the slot more remote from said pivot bar, said anchoring member having the reduced end of the belt secured thereto.

EDVIN S. MIX. 

